After all, weed is a slang term for pot. In a way, it’s a fitting end for a show that featured more tripped-out twists and turns than your average – you guessed it – weed.

Who would’ve thought a mild-mannered suburban housewife from a tony Southern California neighborhood would become a small-time drug dealer who eventually would become ensnared in various entanglements, legal and illegal?

Picking up at the end of the Season 7 finale, Season 8 starts with a bang, literally, when Nancy is shot during a family dinner. The shooter turns out to be Tim Scottson (Daryl Sabara), whom devotees might remember as the son of slain DEA agent Peter Scottson, who was married to Nancy at the time.

Nancy spends 77 days in the hospital and has an epiphany of sorts to stop selling pot. For a time, she’s successful, until she tries to enroll her youngest son Stevie into a youth soccer league in WASPy Old Sandwich, Conn. At one of the games, she witnesses a father giving another father a small package of marijuana. It turns out Terry (Kevin Sussman) is a pharmaceutical sales rep who is giving the man medicinal marijuana.

And Nancy has another epiphany, and enlists Silas to help her peddle drugs as pharmaceutical sales reps. Furthermore, they are approached by a tobacco scion who wants to market their strain of marijuana in cigarette form.

Meanwhile, Shane, unbeknownst to Nancy, is enrolled in the New York Police Academy and studying to become a detective. While this news unsettles Nancy, she is nonetheless impressed when she sees Shane in action arresting Tim Scottson.

Andy and Nancy’s sister Jill (Jennifer Jason Leigh) rekindle their relationship. They subsequently get into an argument, break up, she sleeps with Doug and becomes pregnant. While Andy and Doug debate about who is the father, it’s later revealed Jill lied. She’s actually going through menopause.

And Doug, by now working for a venture capital firm, continues his pot-addled schemes of skirting the tax code in order to bring in more revenue. In order to throw off investigators who believe his new charity he created is a fraud, he became a guru of sorts to homeless people, moving them in to a single room in order to maintain 85 percent occupancy. Later, he had his own epiphany, L. Ron Hubbard-style, of creating his own religion. And thus, Guru Doug was born.

As the season and series winds down, Nancy returns to selling her marijuana in bakery products, opening a chain of coffee shops that become so popular Starbucks offers to buy her out. At first, Nancy, who holds 51 percent of the company’s stock, declines, but soon decides to sell, effectively ending her days as the most unlikely (or likely, depending on your perspective) drug dealers.

“Clippin’ the Buds”: Interviews by cast and experts looking into the world of medicinal marijuana and the creation of the marijuana pill.

“Everyday Advice from Guru Doug”: Guru Doug gives his best advice to complicated life problems.

Audio commentaries from cast and crew.

Gag reel

Deleted scenes.

Bottom line: While there’s a fair share of marijuana use in “Weeds,” this never was a show where stoner humor, such as that of Cheech and Chong, was at the forefront. Rather, it started as a satire of a seemingly perfect suburban California housewife living in a little box made of ticky-tacky (and they all look just the same, as Malvina Reynolds and others would sing in the opening credits) doing the unthinkable to keep up her lifestyle and keep her family together. From there, her lifestyle took root in a world of danger and increasingly bizarre subplots. And while one might despair at such a turn into darkness, the show is surprisingly light-hearted with snappy dialogue and some inspired acting, particularly from Kevin Nealon.